Ximenes Competition No. 839 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 834 | 843 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 839 | Feb 1965 | GINGER | Printer’s Devilry | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. Brain | Butler’s wider—a n/ew honour—choice for irony! | ‘Erewhon’ |
| Second | R. E. Kimmons | Needing a larger profit? Mar/ry a pop singer! Cut a disc! | Gerry and the Pacemakers, pop group |
| Third | Mrs N. Fisher | Dramatically sob, Ag/nes! ’T’was Prism’s early lapse | ref. The Importance of Being Earnest; Miss P. left Jack (Ernest) in a handbag at Victoria Station |
| VHC | T. Anderson | I was raging as “Tin/y”, the magot, my monkey, upset me, scratching | stinging erythema |
| VHC | T. E. Bell | Are those birds dod/os in the circus? Impossible! | Piccadilly C. |
| VHC | J. M. Bennett | It was Keats on Ben Nevis beg/at ode so, lately | ref. Keats, “Read me a lesson, Muse, …”; begging Erato |
| VHC | C. O. Butcher | We’ll have our tots, being soused, to Pop’s win/e.— They can talk! | |
| VHC | R. F. S. Chignell | I don’t order fro/m a nylon donor in Rome—Paris is the only place | frog in Germany |
| VHC | P. Crozier | Marlene shows a le/man’s trips. How? | M. Dietrich in “The Blue Angel” |
| VHC | D. Ellwand | If scared of an arrow, mar/ry, man. (Derby arranging seats to accommodate your party) | gerrymander |
| VHC | G. P. Goddard | The TV craze is “disc”: our a/udition among our children | |
| VHC | J. E. Hobson | Many would keep the cat for pur/ring: you thought it to be so | erring youth |
| VHC | E. M. Hornby | A brid/e who none would think needs the butler’s consent | ‘Erewhon’ |
| VHC | Miss R. A. Illingworth | When Elsie and Doris be/t and Daisy acts funny | E. and D. Waters played Gert and Daisy in film and radio |
| VHC | T. P. Kelly | What does “bein” mean? The answer’s a “le/man”, Orwell found, in Scotland | leg in German or well in Scotland |
| VHC | A. Lawrie | My garden’s abo/mination—time every plant was drowned at birth! | |
| VHC | G. D. Meddings | The bells, Rin/go wed. Better Beatles’ sons? | … be at lessons |
| VHC | E. L. Mellersh | The la/mination may be due to dis-eased layers | |
| VHC | N. A. Morley | Photographs—the origin. Albu/m research with a microscope? | |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | To whom does it fall to comb the bookstalls? Cave! N/ot I,—Cato the Censor! | scavenging erotica |
| VHC | A. E. North | It’s a kind of ra/y—the main effect a reddening of the skin | raging erythema |
| VHC | M. B. Shaw | Hasn’t a brid/e, now, often made a hash of meaty bits? | |
| VHC | D. J. Short | The male dodo wasted his time: dod/os hence no more exist |
HCs in competition 839 awarded to: